A Gower Guy

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Wet now after a cold night, up to 10°c

Woken up around 1:30 by storm and very thundery rain, frequent lightning and very loud thunder.

Shows how localised things can be, had a torrential downpour at 7:20pm with some thunder and lightning, which tripped the electricity, had been very wet on Saturday evening.

I remember that storm, on the Sat 3rd listening to the shipping forecast and hearing force 11 and 12 warnings. Later that evening we were at a friends and an unexpected thunderstorm passed over with hail leaving a nice white scenery, that night my brother slept in my room as his bedroom was close to the next door neighbours large conifer trees that swayed like mad in gales and with severe gales or more forecast we were not going to take the risk of the trees falling onto his room. The 4th was very windy, with hail showers, and local radio was reporting that some advertising boards had come down in Swansea, the trees next door stayed up but by hell did they move in the storm force gusts. I also remember the storm on 28 October '96 which I recall wasn't that gusty but with some very strong sustained winds.

had a shower, now moved away, 17.0°c, with sunny spells and more clouds to the SW

Windy, bright/sunny spells 21.8°c

Sunny spells, breezy, 20.0°c

A cloudy morning with little if any sunny breaks or drizzly rain. [18.4°c], [87% Rel. Humidity], [1015 hPa]

Well I am getting used to the solar system being defined as this The Planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and The Dwarf Planets: Ceres, Pluto(/Charon?) and 2003 UB313 No doubt the defination will modify again in the future

Large area of blue sky around with now only a few clouds around, 17.5°c

Not a bad 7:25 forecast, showing the UK tomorrow, then a town/city summary of tomorrow for North, Mid and South Wales followed by the 5 day summary.

Derek at the end of his forecast tonight mentioned that there will be more weather in half an hour (7:25).

rumbles of thunder from the north, cloud didn't look that threatening, lightning observed as a flash.

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Thanks Mr Data, for some reason I thought that there were no lunar eclipses visible here till 2007. Love Lunar eclipses in early Autumn, hopefully it will be clear This is what it will be like at my location Nasa page: http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/i...6Sep07-Fig4.GIF

Showery spots of rain, feeling close, 16.7°c

BBC Q&A on the subject http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4798205.stm

Hazy sunny spells 20.8°c

Haven't seen any around here, maybe it's been to dry, hot, cool? Or we killed them all last summer B)

Comets, I remember Hale-Bopp in Spring 1997, which was visible to the naked eye, would love to see another comet in the skies without the need of telescopes soon.

Sunny with some high clouds and some convection, 30.0°c

Increasing spells of sunshine after a cloudy day and a half, 24.4°c

Sunny with high clouds from the south, 30.1°c

High cloud but still rather sunny, 25.2°c